Methods for identifying Vessels high collision concentration locations in waterways

نویسندگان [English]

S Film1؛ R Panahi2؛ A Moradi3؛ S Khoram3

چکیده [English]

Maritime transportation industry; as the backbone of global trade; provides more than 90 percent of cargo transportation overseas. Accordingly, safety at sea is highly regarded. On the other hand, safety management requires risk assessment as its prerequisite. In maritime transportation, vessel collision is the most destructive and most frequent accident. Accordingly, collision risk assessment is the most important task when talking about the safety of transportation. In this article, the concept is reviewed including frequency of occurrence as well as its consequence. Then with a focus on the frequency of collisions; which includes high risk locations and causation factor; four approaches to evaluate high risk locations are fully investigated as statistical, analytic, network-based and simulation-based ones. The study clearly shows a good potential to develop software in this area. It becomes more important when looking at sea transportation at the region as well Iran’s port development projects.

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